Yesterday the media, both new and old, roundly savaged Britney's performance at VMAs on Sunday. In my opinion, they were right to do so; she showed none of the charisma and confidence that made her earlier performances seem at least professional.
However, there seems to have been a nastier thread to the discussion yesterday. Much of the media attention was focused on Britney's physique, and it has some people questioning whether this is fair.
There are all sorts of issues here, not the least of which is the media's treatment of women in the spotlight (see all of the rehab-bound teen idols in LA, Hillary and Nancy Pelosi's fashion sense, etc.), and I would like to hear some comments from you the faithful reader on the subject.
My take: Although she looked great by most standards, as an MTV pop-princess performing on the VMAs in a bikini isn't it part of her job description to have a perfect body?
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Was The Media Unfair To Britney?
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What's up, Pasty?
I think it's wholly unfair to start criticizing her physique in the crass tone that some journalists have taken. Maybe it's a part of her job description to have a perfect body, but she still looked good. (Except the hair. Weaves are like copy-editors; you shouldn't look like you've had them.) She definitely didn't look as good as she did five years ago, but she didn't look so bad that her weight gain or less defined muscle tone was distracting from her lackluster performance.
In short:
1) She looks better than most women, even most 26 year-olds.
2) Neither I nor the discerning tastes I watched the VMAs with (female MBA students) thought she physically looked bad. We thought she should hang up her bikini and stilletos because she looked about as entertaining as paint drying, but most of us would still cut off a finger to have her physique or date someone with her physique.
3) For someone who's had two kids, she looks better than any woman I've ever seen.
Granted, as someone with no discernable job skills or requirements, she could have looked better, but she's not so bad as to warrant the media attention that she's gotten for her body. Now, more media attention for the fact that she fired her best asset (a choreographer) and that she sounded like someone's cat walked across a vocoder on a sound board...
I'd fuck her...
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